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Culture: Nocardia asteroides

Top: Sabouraud agar

Morphology: Small round,
white, light orange, hard and gritty. Colonies adhere to the agar, not removed easily when manipulated by loop.

Bottom: Sodium Pyruvate agar (PYR)

Morphology: Usually white, often becomes light orange as the culture ages


 

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